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Lochwinnoch - The community website for the village of Lochwinnoch. Providing information about local news, events, clubs, societies and the community council.
Howwood - Includeds village history, amenities, what's on guide and picture gallery.
Partnership Learning Access Network - Community based computer centre in Paisley and Linwood.
Bishopton - The living history of this village and the surrounding area. Provides community, support and business information.
Linwood Camera Club - Programme of weekly meetings, also beginners' classes and competition closing dates, committee, location and contacts.
Renfrew Past and Present - Details of the history and what it looks like today.
The Butlers Corner - The history of Kilbarchan and surrounding area. Details of Habbie Simpson, Weavers Cottage, The Steeple, St Barchan. Photographs of recent and yesteryear.
Renfrew - The Royal Burgh - A personal view of the town with old photographs and an email list. Contains information about the locality.
Houston Scouts - Provides information about this scout and cubs group. Lists members information and links to associated sites.
Bobbin and Threads - Provides a history of Neilston Mill and its ties with the local people and the surrounding areas.
Diaporama AV Group - Club specialising in tape-slide presentations. Contact details, venue, technical note and invitation to book a show.
The Yellow Rose - Country and western club. Details of the club nights and bands.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Renfrewshire Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Renfrewshire Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Renfrewshire Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Renfrewshire See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Renfrewshire If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Renfrewshire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Renfrewshire He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Renfrewshire I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Renfrewshire Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Renfrewshire And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Renfrewshire We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Renfrewshire "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Renfrewshire Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Renfrewshire I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Renfrewshire "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Renfrewshire The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Renfrewshire Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Renfrewshire Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Renfrewshire Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Renfrewshire blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Renfrewshire Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Renfrewshire
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